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all ahead unless breaking news changes everything. on "studio b." >> first, from fox at 3:00 in new york city, the feds keeping tabs on another journalist, and this one happens to hit close to home. the targeted journalis is james rosen. fox news just obtained the search warrant. we learn the justice department tracked james rosens movements at the state department and seized two days worth of his personal e-mails. not fox e-mails. his permanent e-mails while looking into the possibility of leaks of classified information about north korea are nuclear program, and the important e-mails may provide a major twist. >> thity department went to a judge to get a subpoena for that, and the subpoena was issued, according to the story, because the justice department was alleging the reporter in question, james, had engaged in conspiracy.onspiracy, a

>> shepard: fox news executive vice-president for news, michael clemente issued a statement. i. we are outraged to learn that james rosen was named a criminal co-conspirator for doing his job as a reporter. i is downright chilling we will unequivocally defend his right to operate as a member of what has been until now a free press. shannon is live in d.c. reporter: what is key in these revelations about the justice department and fbi investigations into our colleague, james rosen, is that the fbi agent who filed the a affidavit in this case in support of the search warrant that would allow authorities to access rosen's personal e-mail account said in his point, rosen committed a crime by allegedly working to obtain information from a source at the state department in an david by an fib agent, the agent writes he believed the evidence in the case showed rosen has broken the

law, quote texas very least either as an aider, abettor, and/or co-conspirator. >> very dangerous claim, and the notion of pinning the label of criminal on the press because it gathers news from someone who may not have the authority to provide the news, is extremely dangerous. >> rosen was never contacted by the government, despite an in-depth investigation which included obtaining the search warrant for this personal e-mail account and also tracking his movements by examining the use of his security badge at the state department. also, a report by the inspector general at the justice department investigating a potential leak to the media regarding fast and furious, the gun walking operation. the report mentioned to fox employees. a reporter and a producer, and quote from their e-mails. doj officials say they did not subpoena any reporters' records

or e-mails in that investigation. >> shepard: shannon, thanks. let's take this to the judge, andrew napolitano footprint. this isn't about us. it just so happened this time it's one of our reporters. last time it was "associated press." if james rosen did every single thing that the department of justice listed in this subpoena, where is the crime? >> there is simply no crime, and it was terribly wrong for the fbi to tell a federal judge -- the fbi submitted a half page affidavit, here's a copy, to a federal judge, which is the way you do it. you summarize the reason for which you want a search warrant and then you say here i who is the person behaved criminally and here's the evidence the search warrant will uncover. for the fbi to tell a federal judge that james committed a crime by receiving classified information and offering to publish it, even by asking for classified information, is

absolutely wrong, and brings the justice department into an entirely new area of invasion of first amendment privileges. james, like all of us who are professionals in this business, have an absolute constitutionally protected right to seek news of material interest to the public wherever that news may be. now, don't get me wrong. it is a crime for someone who has a classified clearance and classified material is in their hands, to give it to someone who lacks that classified clearance. it is not a crime if the person who receives it is a journalist. it is not a crime for the journalist to receive it or not a crime for the journalist to ask for it or a crime for the journalist to publish it and it is terribly wrong to tell a federal judge that journalist engaged in criminal activity when we know from supreme court opinions from the peck papers to the president, james' activity is absolutely protected by the first amendment. >> shepard: when they do issue this sort of subpoena, by law

they have to tell you they've done it. don't they? >> yes. >> shepard: they went into our computer servers at fox news, went around our security, pulled things out, and didn't tell us they'd done so. >> and fox fouled out about and it james found out about it from a report in the washington post this morning. shep, this happened two years ago. this is dated may 28, 2010. the government has an obligation to report this to the target, james, and to anybody else involved, fox, the computer server, whoever else might be involved, within a reasonable period of time. in fact, in fact, depending upon what statute the government relied on ex-when the information is in the hands of a third party, like computer server, they have an obligation to tell you before handso you can challenge this. they didn't tell anybody. >> shepard: i read the word chilling a lot today. it's in the statement put out by one of our executives. that's a word from the supreme court. >> yet, it is, the supreme court ruled that when the government

makes it difficult for you to do your job as a journalist, by scaring off your sources, or watching your every move, that's called chilling. chilling is a constitutional phrase meaning the government hasn't directly silenced me but at it made it more difficult for me to speak. >> shepard: the irs controversy now as new details emerge over who knew about the agents targeting conservative groups for extra scrutiny before the election in 2012. we have now obtained a letter which the irs watchdog sent in july of last year to the charm of the house oversight committee, the california republican darryl issa, that gave chairman issa a heads up that an investigation was underway into how the irs conducted oversight into groups requesting tax exempt stat thus elm the white house revealed the investigation was nearly complete. the white house stressed that president obama did not know about this controversy until

recently but top republicans are arguing maybe the president should have known. >> for me to believe that the irs commissioner knew about this a year ago and didn't tell anybody? it's hard for me to believe that the white house counsel knew about this a month ago and didn't tell the chief of staff? if that's the case you don't have much counsel. it is critically important that the american people have trust that the irs -- critical they though ate been down in a nonpartisan way. this is a breach of the trust. regardless of the motivation and how it happened, a breach of the trust and we have to fix it. >> ins a president obama's second term agenda has run into road blocks. mike the white house just revealed more. what did we learn now? >> at the start of a busy week here on capitol hill the white house is fleshing out the timeline about what was known when about irs targeting. >> we knew the subject of the investigation, and we knew the nature of some of the potential findings, but with did not have

a copy of the draft report. we did not know the details, the scope, or the moat vegas -- motivation surrounding the misconduct and did not who was responsible. >> carney went on to say the report was not final and was subject to change. now, as soon as tomorrow there will be more congressional hearings about the irs matter in the senate finances committee they'll feature three key figures, outgoing acting irs commissioner steve miller, inspector general jay russell george, who did the report, and the douglas schumann, former irs commissioner. >> shepard: what can we expect from the next hearings? >> darryl issa, chairing a hearing himself on wednesday up here, had this to say, quote, exactly who in the administration knew about the irs targeting is one of the key outstanding question. in waiting so long to address

wrong-doing and inform the public president obama and his administration seem more preoccupied with having deniability than quickly addressing serious wrong-doing. meanwhile, a leading senate republican is calling on his colleagues to have patience. >> it's hard to do when you're outraged but the right thing to do here is let the facts come out. don't try to prejudge what they are. it's more and more obvious to me that we're going to find out that more people knew about the irs than have admitted so far they knew about it, and people are going to be upset when that happens. >> with the irs, benghazi, and the department of justice targeting reporters, these controversies threaten president obama's second term agenda even to the his aides say they're going to try to move forward with their plans. >> shepard: back to judge andrew napolitano. they didn't know anything. the rope this matters the

question would be, did you direct this? and are you working on politics inside the white house? jew can't do that. >> the allegations are the irs was doing this for more than a year. a year ago the president was running for re-election, so did the people in the white house know the irs was applying additional scrutiny to the tax documents of conservative groups, perhaps to keep them at bay during the election? if that's the case, you could argue this was a political decision. if none of the political people in the white house knew about it, then the irs will say, well, we did this because it was overload. too many of these applications. you can make both arguments. congress needs to get to the bottom because who knew what, when is paramount importance. >> they have to spend half or a little more than half of all their money on certain matters and then the rest of it they can just spend on political operative business. that's because of this ruling from the supreme court. whether you like that or not doesn't matter but you have to investigate whether they're at

the right threshold, whether they're documenting tax laws, but to apply to one side and not the other, that doesn't make sense. >> that's the constitutional issue. when you make it -- when the government makes a decision how to treat a taxpayer based on the taxpayer's speech and political views, same as before. that chills the speech and punishes you because of your speech, treats people in a similar situation differently rather than similarly, as the equal protection clause of the constitution and first amendment require. so, again, this is just the beginning of what needs to be known here in order to resolve this. >> shepard: judge, thank you. >> you're william,. >> shepard: weather alert. the national weather service warning folks that live in areas that tornadoes hit yesterday this dangerous storms could return today, twisters and baseball-size hail. we'll get a live report on the forecast next on a busy news day in "studio b." re and didn't know where to start. at angie's list, you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare

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much, and we're just starting to see the watches, tornado watches insuring effect for some of the same areas we saw this time yesterday. so, parts of north texas, through oklahoma, oklahoma city, missouri, illinois, until 10:00 p.m. central time. more watches and warnings starting to see these cells erupt in and around oklahoma city, south, and some of these areas that were hard hit. so if there's tornado damage on the ground this could be potentially projectiles. all of the damage could hurt people so people are urged to take shelter. there's your threat today. almost the same areas. north texas, up towards the central great lakes, with that emphasis here where we think all the inbreedents are going to come together for the hail, damaging winds and life-threatening tornadoes, and i want to show you the dynamic. warm, unstable marries ahead of the try line and the cold front. so 80s and 90s behind that.

50s and and 60s, and then as we get into the tonight, around fox report, we'll be watching north texas, through oklahoma, then missouri and illinois. tomorrow, hit again. >> shepard: periodic contact with her. >> shots fired from north korea. for the third straight day the north has conducted a new show of force in an effort to deter its enemies, including the united states. south korean official says the rogue nation fired short-range projectiles, either rockets or missiles. the south korean government called the actions deplorable but the north korean regime called the united states and associating so-criticism an intolerable challenge. north korea confirmed it considers the united states a target and its secret nuclear test this year.

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>> shepard: 22 minutes past the hour. a 26-year-old high school dropout is now america's newest tech tycoon. david carp, founder of the blogging service tumblr, and today the aging internet giant yahoo announced it's buying his company for $1 billion in cash. it's part of you how's attempt to attract younger users. tumblr is a social media site

where users create and share their own blogs. folks post or share writing, photos, video, porno, anything they want, and is big with young adult which is key for advertiser, but analysts say it's a huge risk for yahoo, tumblr did not make a lot of money last year, just $13 million, but just sold for 1.1 billion. jonathan hunt is here. this could be risk toker both sides. >> obviously risky for yahoo because they paid so much for a money for a company that made relatively speaking so little. 13 million tuesday. one financial analyst said today that if tumblr was making $100 million and paid a billion, that's ten times the revenue. that normally on the outer limits of these mergers and acquisitions. so it's a big gamble. on the other side, for tumblr, it risks loosing the independent spirit, the anything goes, the idea you can put up cats doing

terrific, any content. marissa, the ceo of yahoo, said she won't change tumblr. listen. >> what we are are acquiring tumblr, we're making a sincere promise to not screw it up. tumblr will continue operate as a separate product and business. >> yahoo said the same when it bought go cities. they paid $1 billion and now at it shut down completely. >> shepard: the most interesting the guy who created it. can you kidding he? >> david carp. a high school drop you 26eers old. -- dropout, 26 years old. his share from 200 million to $275 million. he said in an interview with the guardian a few years ago there's a lot of rich people in the

world, there are very few people have the privilege of getting to invent things that billions of people use. now he has both of those privileges. and he told his tumblr fans they won't change it. he said, quote, we are not turning purple. our headquarters isn't moving. our team isn't changing. our road map isn't changing and our mission to empower creators to make their best work and gift it in front of the audience they deserve, certainly isn't changing. the only thing that is changing for sure is david carp's bank account. >> that is for sure. so yahoo! is going allow pornography? >> oh, yeah. >> shepard: with us now, science and technology editor, jeremy. nobody seems to be talking about it. are we going to censor any content? tumblr, my underring from the kids, has a lot of xxx. >> i read 11.6% of the content is explicit pornography.

so that's one of the main uses kids have for to the cite. >> yahoo! >> we're leaving it up. >> they said we're not turning purple. they didn't say anything about content censors. they were not specific. >> she's going to leave itself exactly the way it is. 50 billion posts. >> now people above the aim of 30 have heard the word of tumblr. people didn't know what tumblr was. now everybody, 25 and under new. every single person, ask your grandchild. grandma did not know what is happening on the tumblr, and grandma will know now. yahoo! >> a big problem and they'll have to deal with that. >> shepard: but if they deal with it, it's not tumblr anybody, and if it's not tumblr it's not worth the 13 billion. >> that's the big dilemma. you want to bring advertising to this. there's almost no advertising at

present for these 300 million active users. so you start feeding them just agent built. but what are the advertisers getting? featured on those explicit sites with the wrong kind of information? i don't think they want to advertise there. >> shepard: when you find what you're looking for on tumblr can the new explanation is yahoo! a match made in hell. stand by for news from this space. tumblr and yahoo! >> you have to applaud this kid. high school dropout -- i don't want tone doors dropping out of high school, but he had some big ideas and sold them off. it's the american dream. good for him. >> shepard: no doubt. makes 13 million in profit and sold it for 1.1 billion. is it 2004? >> yes. >> yeah, yeah, just doesn't look good from that sense but in terms of the number of users, the use of the users -- >> data mining from this thing?

gold. yahoo! >> the last time we heard from jodi arias she was telling our fox station in phoenix she'd prefer the department penalty over life in prison and now everything just changed. for the woman con viced of stabbing her lawyer, shooting him and slitting his throat chev may speak out in court but have you heard? her lawyers want no part of it anymore. it's gone bonkers and the white house revealing more on which officials knew about the irs targeting groups and when it knew it. that's coming up as we approach the bottom of the hour and the top of the news. yahoo!

>> shepard: this is "studio b." at it the bottom of the hour, time for the top of the news. seems convicted killer jodi arias can't find a friend. her defense team announced it will not be calling any witnesses to testify on her behalf at the sentencing phase of her trial, as the jury decided whether jodi arias should die for her crime. this happened after a friend of jodi arias pulled out, claim showing got death threats. an ex-boyfriend set to testify. not happening either, and without any witnesses we're expecting jodi arias to address the jury by herself only tomorrow. the same arizona jurors who convicted jodi arias of murder in the first degree in the death

of her former lover, stabbing him, shooting him, slitting his throat. now during the sentencing phase the jury has but two options. they can send her to prison for the rest of her life are sentence her to death. trace gallagher with the news is live. the defense asked for a mistrial. on what grounds? >> the defense argued that all of this extreme television coverage led to this being, you know, a circus, and the fact that the witness wouldn't testify is the same reason that they pulled out, because the tv coverage led her to be intimidate, and on top of that, the fans of jodi arias are, or fans against her, offered death threats. arias attorney said if witnesses are afraid to testify the jury never gets the full picture. here's the defense attorney. >> we are in a position where we cannot provide effective assistance of counsel at this phase of the proceeding. we cannot present the complete picture that is incumbent upon

us. >> but the prosecutor said he real reason the jodi airways friend refused to testify is because her drug history opens her up to prosecution, and the judge denied that motion for a mistrial. >> shepard: nothing today. what happens tomorrow? >> well, 9:30 local time, 12:30 even, jodi arias will take the stand. this time she cannot be questioned or cross examined. simply makes a statement. then the prosecutor has a chance to rebut if he wants. very few people expect him to do that. and then after closing arguments the jury will get this again, and you throw in the fact they've already agreed that this was a heinous and depraved crime, and then the family impact statements from travis alexander's family, and on top of that nobody testifying on behalf of jodi arias and legal experts will tell you it looks very grim for jodi arias tomorrow. >> shepard: let's take this to a

lawyer, legal analyst. arthur, i don't know. if you were trying to save your client from the death accident your client told the jury through fox 10 arizona that she wanted to die, what do you do? >> they ask the judge, let us off this case. they've done it -- i think the third time. they've gone back in judge's chambers and asked to be recused. it's not because they're not getting paid. they're just conflicted. they have a client going on television saying just kill me, death is freedom. and now they're putting his client on the stand who is going to ask them to save her life. you're not allowed to put a client on the stand who you know is lying. so if the client confesses, yeah, did the murder, and then want to testify and say i didn't do the murder, as an attorney the only thing you're allowed to do is put them on the stand and say, talk to the jury. so they've conflicted and making off as these mistrial motions.

maybe preserve something appellate issues. i think the jury will act swiftly. they have done so at every opportunity and they're going to try to decide what is the ultimate punishment? is it really death or putting her in a box for the rest of here life? >> shepard: i wondered if maybe -- we don't have any idea but wonder for the ropes she laid out, if she hadn't said something about confessing, that, yes, it was murder in the first degree by the letter of the law, and here house i did and it why i did it. then they couldn't ethically put her up there and let her try to save herself. >> she can still say -- >> shepard: but they can't be involved. >> correct, but one of her options tomorrow is to go up there and do that. some key look at the jury -- >> shepard: if she wants to do she can do that. >> she is allowed to ask for -- plea for her life to beg for mercy, let me confess, it did it other. i'm remorseful. i'm sorry. i heard the family members

crying. i was crying, lost my mind, please don't kill me. let me live in a box the rest of my life, and chev is allowed to do that. i've never been in trouble before in my life. i'm an artist. a good person except for these 15 minutes of my life. so, please don't kill me. she could beg for mercy. >> shepard: these lawyers don't want any part of this. she has been tweeting through a friend from jail. i'm sure they could not have been too pleased about that. >> miserable. i don't know anything about them. never done a death penalty case but the pressure on them is enormous. they have been living this trial forever. they had to deal with her 18 days on the stand. they're not sleeping or eating or dealing with family members. you can see their body language. they're done, they're so spent. it's ridiculous. they can't wait for this to be over, but it will be over with their client probably getting killed. >> shepard: let's get to matters of national concern. the white house pushing back on

criticism over the handling of the irs controversy. today the press secretary jay carney, who may have one hoff the tough u.s. jobs in the world, confirmed that the top white house attorney learned last month that the independent investigation was nearly complete and she told senior staff members. some g.o.p. lawmakers arguing the president should have known that the irs agents tarting conservative groups for extra scrutiny but jay carney said the whiteo need to inform the president in this case. wendell no need to tell the president. no need. >> shep, jay carney says out who counsel katherine roemer made the call and it's her job to make the call. chev did it because the report wasn't final and there wasn't anything the president 0 could do about the allegations until they were final. carney says she told senior others individualors. >> she newell the subject of the investigation and the nature of some of the potential findings

about but we did not have a copy of the draft report. we did not know the details or scope or motivation surrounding the misconduct, and we did not know who was responsible. most importantly, the report was not filed until very much subject to change. >> carney says there was no indication the inappropriate treatment of tea party groups was politically motivated, to the there were news reports from tea party groups claim degree lay from the tax exempt status that the white house aware or. >> how are the republicans respond '. >> marco rubio launched an online petition drive to make irs abuse of power a criminal act. mitch mcconnell declared it a cult of intimidation in the administration, and rand paul is suspicious of the inspector general's fining there was no outside interference or plate cat motivation. paul ryan notes the inspector general conducted an audit, not

an investigation. >> audit is a measurement of behavior and what actually occurred but an investigation, they didn't look at e-mails, or intent. they didn't look at who was in the chain of information. so, none of that information has been acquired yet. that is what the idea of doing now. that's what our congressional overseers are doing now as well. >> ryan noted the targeting was going on during last year's presidential race in which he was involved as the republican vice-presidential nominee. he wants to know who knew what and when and how high up in government it went, shepard. >> shepard: thanks. folks across the midwest and the great plains bracing for towards and bad weather. a storm chaser will be with us. what is in store this afternoon across the vast region? continuing coverage next.

ship. >> shepard: forecasters are warning people some watch out for more deadly storms and the radares lighting up now. more than two dozen tornadoes went over that section, one of the tornadoes a half mile wide. the weather officials had these dire warnings today as this twister bore down on the town of pink, oklahoma, this weather service said: take cover right now in pink, do not wait.

complete destruction of neighborhoods, businesses, and vehicles will occur. that warning would prove to be sadly dead right. here's one woman who is now homeless. >> he wind blew the cellar door off and then everything went to pieces. >> shepard: the thousands of homes and businesses without power. twisters weren't the only change jerry. check out this picture. hail the size of baseballs rained down from the school. alicia is in wichita, kansas. what are they seeing there? >> here in wichita, folks say they're very grateful for the moment. you can see behind me, this is the property of ron knight. that's his machine shed and you can see -- we all know what towards do to structures in this area. seven to eight tornadoes touched down in this region alone.

fortunately for ron and his family they were at the movie so no one was injured but the cleanup is underway right now. they had four and a half miles of transition line goes down, putting 10,000 people out and you mentioned that hail. that has been part of the biggest problem in this area. they were really lucky when it came to the damage in terms of the tornado because it his on the outskirts of town but the hail was so severe, they have cars that were destroyed. one looked like a golf ball with the little pock holes because of the hail. the storms came through so quickly and so fast. and fortunately for the folks of wichita it turned and moved on. but however, we all know, according to the forecasters, health its not over so they need to continue to heed the warnings and seek shelter. because the quicker they do that, the more chance they have of being safe throughout these storms because we all know at it that time of year and it is not over. >> shepard: following national weather service tweets is

imperative today. yesterday storm chasers -- man who chases these storms for a living is in the car, and chasing tornadoes on the ground right now. george is on the phone live with us. what are you seeing, george? >> well, there's no toward on the ground right quite yet but the storms i'm on in oklahoma just went tornado warning a few moments ago. it's starting to take on that really characteristic shape we saw yesterday several times across parts of central oklahoma and ites strengthening. >> shepard: what do the skies look like right now? i know you run after these tornadoes. what is the word? >> i'm starting to get into the explain in a few minutes i'll be going south and will have a better view of the updraft area of the storm where the tornado will be. so right now, it doesn't really look ominous or menacing, and

that's part of the problem. people look at the skies and if it looks like right now, think there's no danger when in fact there could be a tremendously dangerous tornado. >> what is the deal? usually these move along and one area doesn't have the same warnings day after day. >> shepard: sounds like the phone is messing up with george are he has some fancy communication in the storm chaser vehicle but it's not that easy. part of it is the system is not

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some pharmacy's customer loyalty program. use your card and get a discount, you waive your right to privacy. didn't know that. experts warn everytime you swipe one of those little cards your information could become available to the highest bidder. the fox news is on this and where is all the information going? >> this is the card you're talking about. this is my cvs card, and once you start using is the marketers can track you and they know what you're buying, and privacy experts tell me this information, even your prescription drug info, is being sold every singing night. now, here's where it goes. marketers. they've buy it. employers buy it. doctors, hospitals, obviously have it, but it goes to data clearinghouses. if you're applying for a job and hoping they don't find out about the fact you failed your precancer screening, forget it. they might find out. so my question was, how much is

this information worth? here's what dr. peel told me. >> it costs about somewhere between 50 cents and a dollar to get a social security number. but your medical records, identifiable diabetic patient records, can be bought for 14 to $25 each online. >> so this isn't identity thieves who targeted this as their next big area to find money, to steal money and make money. >> shepard: aren't there rules? >> there are rules but nobody pays attention to them. health and human services conducted an audit and found the vast majority of the people they survey, hospitals, physician offices, aren't paying attention to the rules because they don't know it. they don't have time to worry about this. we're going to be covering this all week long. tomorrow is medical identity theft on the fox business network, talking about this issue, everything single day. at it something consumers have to know about.

>> week nights 6:00 and 9:00 on the fox business network. looking forward to it. >> shepard: fox news alert. we have been reporting on the weather today and now we have serious news. these are live pictures from one of our affiliates and this is from kotv in the oklahoma city area. there is now a tornado warning for western garvin county in southern oklahoma, northern stevens county in southern oklahoma, extreme southeastern grady county, northwestern carter county, all in southern oklahoma, until 3:15 central daylight time. so for the next 20 minutes or so a warning. a warning means there's been a spotting. those in oklahoma know what warning means. tune to local weather radar or tune to the twitter from nws, national weather service. look at this. that pink area, very serious. it is a storm watch day and we're live in the extreme weather center right after this. [ male announcer ] hunt...farm...or trail...

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>> shepard: a live look. these are live pictures, and a tornado has just formed, and we have been watching while you were watching the commercial. so we ended the commercial break early so you can see this live. these pictures south of oklahoma city. one of the stations that does news for two channels. we watched this tornado, funnel cloud for a minute it was forming and dropping just a little bit out of the clouds and

then a small portion would go to the ground, there was nothing around it. and it would go back into the clouds and now it is a full on tornado. appears to be moving quite slowly from our vantage point across what is mostly open fields there but that's not to say entirely. if your house is that one in the foreground there, this is ominous. it's my understanding that this chopper is zoomed in quite a bit so the chopper is not in a dangerous at this point from this tornado, but for those in this affected area today, these tornado warnings and watches today are extremely serious. and you can see why. tornado alley is lit up this mid-may, and today the national weather service predicted will be a difficult one across the central center part of the country, across much of the midwest. this tornado, which obviously began as a funnel cloud and was just slightly dipping from the clouds, is now expanding its ground cloud, at least, and

moving across a wide swath. this is south of oklahoma city. continuing updates throughout the day. if you are in an affected area, please tune to local sources. i'm shepard submission. here's cavuto. >> neil: this is shawnee, oklahoma, a tornado has touched down in this city, 0 miles east of oklahoma city, in a region that has been but -- buffetted by tornadoes. two dead, two dozen injured. this one just touched down seconds ago amid reports of tornado was throughout western garvin county in southern oklahoma, northern stevens county in southern oklahoma so we have moved from a watch to a siting as we speak. this activity has picked up appreciably of l